No. 25 Volleyball Treks to the Magnolia State

COLUMBIA, Mo. – The No. 25 ranked University of Missouri volleyball team (18-6, 9-3 SEC) wraps its regular-season road slate this weekend with a trip to the Magnolia State. Mizzou will face Ole Miss (16-9, 6-7 SEC) Friday in Oxford before heading to Starkville for a meeting with Mississippi State (10-13, 4-10 SEC) Sunday.

Match times are set for 6:30 p.m., CT at the Gillom Athletic Performance Center Friday before a 2 p.m., CT SEC road finale at the Newell-Grissom Building.

Both matches will be featured on SEC Network+. Jake Hromada (play-by-play), Brittney McLaughlin (analyst) and Keiran Lencheski (reporter) will be on the call at Ole Miss.

MU is ranked in the top-25 for the second-straight week this season. The Tigers previously received votes four times this season (preseason, Sept. 2, Oct. 28 and now Nov. 4) before breaching the top-25 on Nov. 11.

MU is ranked 22nd this season for RPI (fourth highest SEC school).

Mizzou welcomed a season-high 6,379 fans to the Hearnes Center Friday (Nov. 15) against Florida. It marked the fifth 3,000-plus match in 2024 and is the fourth-highest Mizzou Volleyball crowd in program history and the largest since Nov. 27, 2013 (vs. Arkansas). MU ranks 21st in the nation for average attendance (3,095) this season.

The Tigers have matched their SEC (9) and overall win (18) totals from 2023, when Dawn Sullivan was named SEC Coach of the Year. Mizzou last picked up double-digit SEC wins in 2020 with 15.

The Tigers rank first overall in the SEC for assists per set (13.75, second in NCAA) and kills per set (14.55, fourth in NCAA). Mizzou is also first in the SEC for assists (1,251), kills (1,324). MU is also second in the…